Henry Rollins Quotes
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Quotes to Explore
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If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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In my situation, every time I write a sentence, I'm thinking not only of the people I ended up in college with but my siblings, my family, my school friends, the people from my neighborhood. I've come to realize that this is an advantage, really: it keeps you on your toes.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
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I don't read books.
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As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want to invest in your employees, and then you give your employees the control to build a custom perk package for themselves.
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I have ideas all of the time from the beginning, but they never really wind up turning out like I thought they would.
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I am not an actor. Yes, every so often I appear on talk shows to promote something I've written, and I enjoy doing so because I have a lot of stories to tell, and I like making audiences laugh. But that's not acting. That's just me being me.
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Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.
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I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
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You know what's good? Going on the ice and knowing that you don't have to skate when the whistle blows. All my life I've been the one skating.
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A feeling of loss of control over your own life and a nagging feeling of “What am I missing?”
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
